Month: May 2018

…and how you can too. Up until now I’ve been working in non-technical role. After studying for many months, I just got my first engineering job at a major Bay Area tech company. This journey has been rewarding but incredibly difficult….

Photo by Camille Orgel on Unsplash I’ve been coding for about a year. At the beginning, I felt overwhelmed. I still feel that way occasionally though notably less so. Here are three things I’ve told myself over the past year to keep…

Figuring it out. Ultimately, for me, it comes down to a single key issue: In the limited time we have with children each day in school, what is the best use of that time for learning? How are we designing and/or…

stocksnap.io Ivan Obolensky I’ve been through more management and leadership workshops, courses, classes, and programmes than I can count. It seems every organisation I ever worked for felt the need to send its managers through some sort of analysis and…

because dread sometimes will get to even the best among us Life is happening behind the monitor too, so I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the arrival of those days when as a new developer you can not help but feel…

Original article by Mariana Elisa. source: https://www.radview.com/blog/4-ideas-for-getting-started-with-devops-performance-testing/ Recently, I decided to dust off one of my new year resolutions, which was to write more technical articles. At the same time I enrolled in Microsoft's DevOps Testing course. It inspired me to…

React 16.3 https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/981712092611989509 Each React component comes with several methods that allows developers to update the application state and reflect the change to UI. There are three main phases of a component which including mounting, updating and unmounting. Mounting These…

I just read this medium post from the founder of Seed & Spark. Emily Best, in the brutally straightforward way that only she can, broke down what it was really like to raise her $2M seed round, which she will…

Spoilers: I Approve. Look ma, no hands typing at 90 WPM. I purposely got up earlier than my natural rhythm today, a Monday morning of all days, to attend a Women in Technology Networking event hosted by the City of Toronto. The…

.. by celebrating the lives of Indian feminist trailblazers. Photo by Anna Sullivan on Unsplash In the last 3–4 years, Google’s Doodles are bringing forth a subtle revolution among young Indian women — to dream bigger, to study STEM, to fight for social justice….

stocksnap.io Anthony Tran The risk of taking time out of formal employment I want to talk about something that any woman who has taken leave to have a baby and start a family will attest to- taking time out of formal…

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) courses are receiving continued and increasing support from educators hoping to equip the next generation. STEM fields harness a method and a mindset that says: we can give kids the opportunity to think creatively…

Man on Escalator by Casey Rodarmor via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 We love this 2-minute video from the Mayor of London’s office. It’s a thought-provoking public service announcement on gender inequality in the workplace. At one point, the guy directing men…

https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=56146&picture=woman-teacher-cartoon Here is our list! What are we missing? Leave us a note and we will add items to the list. TechShopz in a Box™ – TechGirlz Code.org – Teach Computer Science Scratch – Educators The Code Mobile Code Club Canada Members…